Historical Section Presentations

Prize Winners: 

2026 - 

2025 - 

2024 - Joint winners Naomi Niles and Matthew Fadhil

2022 - Michael Lee

2021 - Alon Taylor

2020 - Aaron Smith

2019 - Nicholas Bell-Allen

2018 - Blake Dawson

2017 - Joint winners Evan Tseros and Danielle Wiltshire 

All presentations are listed by year in the table following.
   

 

All presentations are listed by year in the table following.

  Topic Presenter
              Evolution of Eagle's Syndrome: A historical progression, from classic and carotid forms to the venous variant Navin Abeysinghe
  The Devil Wears Tumours: A Cancer Story from Down Under Katelyn Steele
  Hobart to Hypervitaminosis: An ENT Survival Story Tony Lian
  Hearing the Dreaming: Aboriginal Songlines and the Auditory Landscape Justin Eltenn
  The Tyranny of Distance and the Battle for the Airway: A Historical Perspective on ENT Emergencies and the Royal Flying Doctor Service Praween Senanayake
  The Hole Story: Ear Piercing in Australian History Sahil Chopra
  Patrols to Portable Operating Theatres - A Historical Review of Indigenous Ear Outreach Services Lara Gahan
  From Chattel Slavery to America's First Black Otolaryngologist/Ophthalmologist: The Remarkable Legacy of Dr David Kearney McDonogh Mark Laidlaw
  Listening to Ancient Voices: Philosophical and Medical Perspectives of Hearing in Antiquity Jacinta Lin
  Topic Presenter
              Wattle You Do for That Earache? The Indigenous Cure for Nose, Throat, and Spirit Praween Senanayake 
  The Evolution of Otolaryngology in Australia: Pioneers, Progress, and Legacy Nayellin Reyes Chicuellar
  The Tale of the Tuning Fork: From Pitch to Pathology Aki Flame
  How a Pope’s quest for great wine lead modern ENT surgery Sahil Chopra
  Quiet Achievers: a history of deafness in sport, in celebration of 100 years of the Deaflympics Benjamin Worrall
  Lucja Frey: A Life of Medical Excellence and Tragedy Under the Nazi Regime Junru Gao

 

  Topic Presenter
  The history of paediatric awake endoscopy. Nathan Lenehan
  Moffett’s Solution: Is Cocaine Indispensable or Indefensible Sivagowri Somasundaram
 Joint Prize Winner  ‘The War Map of the Physician’: Emil Zuckerkandl and His Contributions to Head and Neck Surgical Anatomy Matthew Fadhil
 Joint Prize Winner  Not to be sniffed at: the nose as a diagnostic tool through the ages Naomi Natasha Niles
  Up into the sella - a brief review of the advent and evolution of transsphenoidal surgery. Praween Senanayake
  Sigmund Freud's Oral Cancer Guy Rees

No Historical Section this meeting.

  Topic Presenter
  Barrier Scrivener: Australia's first specialist otologist Nathan Hui
Prize winner A fascinating history of sword swallowing and the development of oesophagoscopy and endoscopy  Michael Lee
  Dr Laura Margaret Hope: Pioneer Surgeon of South Australia Guy Rees
  Hearing through his teeth - The remarkable story of Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph Praween Senanayake
  The original "Water"-gate: The fascinating tale of US President Glover Cleveland's secret maritime ENT surgery Alon Taylor
  Dr William Wilde: The famed otologist and the mysterious ear disease that killed his son, famed poet Oscar Wilde Andrew Taylor
  Topic Presenter
  Notable Women in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery throughout history  Kimberley Bradshaw
  Perfect pitch through the ages: A rare auditory phenomenon Jennifer Chen
  All the light we cannot see: The invention of the lightbulb and its influence on ENT practice Jed Hughes
Prize winner From wipeout to drill out - The history of hte management of exostoses and it's impact on the Australian surfing community Alon Taylor
  Antonio Valsalva - A gentleman, humanitarian and pioneer of human ear anatomy Liam Travers
  Vinegar throughout the ages - Not just a household cleaner  Michael Zhang
  Topic Presenter
Prize winner The tonsillectomy - Garnett Passe and the women that immortalised him in art and science Aaron Smith
  Beethoven's Ninth - A medical enigma  Rodney Lui
  Honey: a sweet addition to your morning toast or the cure to your runny nose? Hashm Albarki
  The power of advertising: How the medical profession lit up cigarette sales in the early 20th century Anne Tescher
  The Gland of Owen, an Indian Rhinosceros and Parathyroids James Nightingale
  Epistaxis as a literary device through the ages Timothy Do
  From Meniere's Disease to golf on the moon Jennifer Lee
  Topic Presenter
  A literary history of the nose: From Pinocchio to Cyrano to Voldemort Kartik Vasan
  Did the buccaneer William Dampier introduce widespread paediatric middle-ear disease to the Aboriginal Bardi People of Western Australia in the 17th Century? Nathaniel Deboever
  The godfather of rugby league: The legen of Darren Lockyer's voice and a review of laryngeal fractures in sports Samantha Jaensch
Prize winner Dr William Anstey Giles: Otolaryngology's exordium to The Royal Australiasian College of Surgeons Nicholas Bell-Allen
  Bill's bar - The Sydney acoustic neuroma story Luke O'Neil
  Nelson Mandela - lessons learned at his bedside Peter Friedland
  Topic Presenter
  The founding and history of the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Danielle Wiltshire
  Every breath you take: The uniquely Australian story of Professor Colin Sullivan, inventor of CPAP Navid Ahmadi
Prize winner Pioneering surgery, two World Wards and the Guinea Pig club: The family legacy of Gillies and McIndoe Blake Dawson
  The Australian Nobel-Prize winner who radically changes the management of Mastoiditis Nathaniel Deboever
  The strangling angel peeks from the shadows  Sarah Grigg
  The first Australian Fellowship exam in Otolaryngology: The people and events that shaped the early college Timothy Holmes
  Topic Presenter
  Introduction  Nicholas Jufas & Niall Jefferson
Joint Prize winner The Teflon-coated prefier with a trademark Granuloma Evangelos Tseros
Joint Prize winner Dr Jean Littlejohn: Surgeon, teacher, scholar, leader Danielle Wiltshire
  The journey of Erythroxylum Coca - From Peruvian mummies, German chemists to Vin Mariani: The early history of Cocaine Rithvik Reddy
  Robert Henry Pulleine (1869-1935): Biologist, naturalist, anthropologist and Otolaryngologist David Close
  Moffett: Innovative solutions for both warfare and the nose Vimal Sekhar
  Brief review of Australian native plants used for Head and Neck applications Daniel Anderson
  Topic Presenter
  Through the looking glass - A history of endoscopes João Nogueira
  Cut-throat Surgeons: A brief history of Head and Neck Surgery William Coman
  The Heimlich life of Heimlich Nicholas Jufas
  A brief retrospective on Bruce Benjamin John Curotta
  Ossiculoplasty: The lessons of history Bruce Black
  The evolution of the ear: A brief pictorial tour Phil Yeung